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Maybe it's just a technical hitch for me, but for the regular webinars in this series when I've eventually watched them and come to the comment board, there's a whole lot more discussion to read and learn from. Am I so late that they've all been taken down!!
Anyway, as ever, I am bowled over by this extra webinar, by what I just did not know, by what seems so essential in our field of couple and family therapy but just does not get promoted in the UK.
I am amazed again by how generous and skillful our presenters have been in their hour of webinar presentation - here John got through a lifetime's work and several books of his and others so that we across the world need only watch this hour a few dozen times, and it feels like we can turn the teaching into practice where we are.
The marriage of scientist-practitioner has also been an inspiration where our professional and academic and government systems in the UK seem to tie most of us in the UK all up forever in red tape and high flown ideas and inappropriate medical modes of evidence.
I am inspired by the energy and productivity of the American culture. From within what I believe is an integrated field (thanks perhaps to Psychotherapy Networker?) and training in MFT, there is this can-do culture. With ease, individuals build ideas, practice and research and set up shop with institutions that carry their own name! The competition of the market place seems to breed healthy relationships (rather than the miserable ones you might predict), with celebration, respect and collaboration between leaders in the field. . . Or maybe PN has just been really good at lining them up like this!
No . . all the presenters talk of the links with each other's ideas and work. And John mentioned a dozen more names that are waiting in the wings for us to learn from.
So, I have to say that - whatever the strengths may be of the very separated UK fields of Couple Counselling and of Family Therapy - these webinars in Couple Therapy are a wake-up call to us to broaden our learning and our courses.
And the webinars themselves are a cheap and effective way to make a start on that catching up to where we need to.
Many thanks for the series and this extra webinar too.
Nick Child
Family Therapist,
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